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likewise intends to campaign
this fall and has already secured
donations to do so. He said he
recently spent a day touring
Cottage Grove’s water treatment
plant and plans to be a guest on
a police ride-along soon.
“As someone with the time,
I’m putting full-time effort into
it,” he said. “I’m enjoying it a
lot, and I care about this town
and want to give back.”
Meanwhile, Gowing, who has
served on the Council for seven
years, said that he’s planning a
run for mayor that should in-
clude at least two other estab-
lished candidates.
“That’s the plan right now,”
Gowing recently said. “I feel
the time is right for me. It’s ulti-
mately what I wanted to do when
I fi rst got involved, to someday
be mayor, and I feel like I’ve
spent my time on the Council
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making sure I’m ready.”
Gowing said that he consid-
ered running for the mayor’s
seat even before he was ap-
pointed to replace Lynn Miller
in 2009, though he realizes now
that the experience he’s gained
as a councilor should serve him
well.
“Once I got involved with
things I realized that if you do
it that way, you may be in over
your head,” he said. “People
think that the mayor can do
magical things, but there are still
lots of procedures and policy to
learn.”
A native of Cottage Grove,
Gowing said he originally got
involved with city government
for a reason that holds true to-
day.
“Change is inevitable, but
a lot of us like Cottage Grove
this way,” he said. “It’s a nice,
simple town, and it’s worked for
close to 150 years.”
Two other familiar names and
faces say they also intend to
run for mayor this fall. At-large
Councilor Mike Fleck said he
plans to run and has explored
the need to balance his work and
civic lives.
“I think I have the experience
and the ability,” Fleck said. “My
concern has mostly been about
time commitments.”
Ward I Councilor Jake Boone
said he also plans to run for
mayor.
“I’m just big-headed enough
to think that I might do OK at
it,” he said. “I have a good grasp
of the issues facing the City, and
I have the ability to effectively
run meetings.”
Boone said that he wouldn’t
be surprised if the fervor of
election season inspired more
candidates for mayor or the
Council. He and Fleck would be
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prevalent downtown recently, including
graffi ti and vandalism, criminal mischief
and noise in alleys that has been attributed
to smokers outside downtown bars. He
said that many such incidents seem to go
unreported.
“The graffi ti and criminal mischief
seems to happen every night,” he said.
“Even if it’s after the fact, it’s important
that it gets reported to us. If we don’t know
about it, we can’t do more directed patrols
in the area or foot patrols to try to catch
people in the act.”
In response to recent incidents, Shepherd
said police have already begun conducting
more foot patrols downtown in an effort to
“know more about what’s going on.”
Slay said she believes that even a modest
outcome from next week’s meeting could
prove benefi cial.
“If even one person walks away feeling
like they know how to be a better neighbor,
it’s a win,” she said.
voters would support. She said the District
in turn attempted to keep the new bond’s as-
sessment below that fi gure, and the Harrison
bond is estimated to start at $1.90 per $1000
in assessed value for its fi rst year. (This rep-
resents the combination of the existing high-
school bond, set to expire in 2025, and the
prospective Harrison bond).
Thus, for the owner of a home valued at
$170,000, which the District used as the me-
dian value of a home in Cottage Grove, the
annual cost of the Harrison bond would be
$323, or $26.92 per month. Compared to the
rate local property owners paid on the exist-
ing CGHS bond in 2015 ($1.53 per $1000),
the new bond would add a cost of $5.24 per
month or $62.88 per year.
However, the current CGHS bond rate has
fallen over its lifetime as the assessed value
of property in the District has grown and
more homes have been built. (The District’s
stats say that the assessed value of property
has risen from $812,412,894 in 2001 to over
campaigning for mayor without
the threat of losing their council
seats if their mayoral bids are
unsuccessful, as their Council
terms do not expire until the end
of 2018. Gowing, by contrast,
would fi nd himself off the Coun-
cil if he isn’t elected mayor, and
he said he’s fi ne with that.
“In the event that I didn’t win,
I’d just as soon not be there,”
Gowing said.
Regardless of the outcome,
each of the three prospective
mayoral candidates said a three-
way race would be both inter-
esting and informative.
“If it’s a three-way race, the
City wins either way,” Fleck
said. “I’m looking forward to a
positive campaign.”
Candidates for local offi ce
can begin fi ling their intent to
run for offi ce on June 1 and
must do so by Sept. 8.
$1.3 billion last year).
In 2001, its fi rst year, property owners paid
$2.16 per $1000 of assessed value on the
CGHS bond, a rate that dropped each year
except 2010 and 2014. Thus, the District cal-
culated that the Harrison bond — using the
average rate of the CGHS bond over its life-
time — would cost the owner of a $170,000
home an additional $2.13 per month, or
$25.56 per year.
Parent said the District used a fl at growth
rate in the assessed value of property of 2.75
percent to calculate the ongoing cost of the
Harrison bond. For the owner of a $140,000
home, the new bond would cost $266 per
year or $22.17 per month, which is $3.03 per
month lower than the cost of the CGHS bond
in 2001 and $4.32 higher than the CGHS
bond cost last year. The owner of a home
valued at $200,000 would pay $380 for the
Harrison bond, or $31.67 per month, a $6.17
per month increase from the 2015 high-
school bond assessment and a $2.50 monthly
increase from the average rate of the CGHS
bond through its lifetime.
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common in the hatchery, inju-
ries also happen more often and
disease can be more prevalent.
The genetic changes are sub-
stantial and rapid, the study
found. It’s literally a process
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of evolution at work, but in this
case it does not take multiple
generations or long periods of
time.
“We expected hatcheries to
have a genetic impact,” Bl-
ouin said. “However, the large
amount of change we observed
at the DNA level was really
amazing. This was a surprising
result.”
With the question put to rest
of whether hatchery fi sh are dif-
ferent, Blouin said, it may now
be possible to determine exactly
how they are different, and work
to address that problem. When
the genetic changes that occur
in a hatchery environment are
better understood, it could be
possible to change the way fi sh
are raised in order to produce
hatchery fi sh that are more like
wild fi sh. This research is a fi rst
step in that direction.
This work was performed
using steelhead trout from the
Hood River in Oregon. It was
supported by the Bonneville
Power Administration and the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife.
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